Paint compound



UNITE STAT S PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL KWARNEBERG, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PAINT COMPOUND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 543,308, dated July 23,1895.

' Application filedMay 5, 1894:. Serial No. 510,423. (No specimens.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, PAUL KWARNEBERG, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Paint Compounds, of

which the following is a full, clear, and exact.

- consists of fifty-two (52) gallons of linseed-oil,

four (4) pounds of turpentine of a thick consistency, like mush, twelve(12) pounds of litharge, four (4) pounds of stearine, twelve (12) poundsof japan, and four (4) pounds of sugar of lead.

I generally prepare my paint mixture in the following manner, to wit:Boil the oil for about three (3) hours at a temperature of about 17 5Reaumur. Then allow it to cool and place it in a suitable tank orreceptacle and allow it to settle, so that impurities and foreignsubstances may sink to the bottom. When sufficient time has elapsed forthis purpose, I remove the clear oil and put it back into a cooking panor kettle and reheat it to about the same temperature, 175 Reaumur.Ithen put the sohurgloed into the oil and stir the 35 mass thoroughlythen the turpentine, and stir the mass again thoroughly, then the.stearine, again stirring it thoroughly; and then letthe mass boil forabout three hours at about the temperature hereinbefore referred to; Ithen remove the boiling mass from the fire or remove the fire from underit, and as it cools add the japan. The entire mass is then put in asettling tank or receptacle again and allowed to settle, after which itis removed, so

as not to disturb the sediment, and is made ready for use by theaddition of desirable coloring-matter.

It will be understood and appreciated that the proportions ofingredients above given

